Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook starts to ship

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook starts to ship

Samsung has certainly lost no time in making sure that their range of Series 5 Chromebooks will arrive at your doorstep on schedule, having put it up for sale already with Amazon leading the way. As with anything and everything that is worth looking into, the main catch behind this offer (if you can call if that after reading) would be the 3G model in a white chassis being the only one for sale at $499.99 a pop, so that means if you want the more affordable WiFi-only model for $429.99, you will have to suck it up with a pre-order at the moment.

As for the other remaining colors of the Series 5 (Titan Silver, anyone?), you will just have to sit down and wait for your pre-order to be processed and make its way to the “shipping” status.

Just a quick refresher in case you are wondering what the hype behind the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is all about – this is a super slim portable computing device that intends to tread on the MacBook Air’s hallowed ground, sporting a 12.1″ display at 1280 x 800 resolution, an Intel Atom 1.66 GHz dual core processor, 2GB RAM, and a 16GB solid state drive. Are these enough to sway you to Samsung’s cause?